the 22nd: woke up earlish, got a good breakfast, and then went to explore the town. We ended up buying a lot of really cool stuff and running into a number of interesting people. One of which, I will now describe. So, we were walking down one of the major shopping streets in down-town Cairo, and this older man (40s) walks by and goes "walk like an Egyptian!" We kinda awkwardly laugh and keep walking. He then introduces himself and told us we were in a too expensive street and that the place with the cheaper stuff is around the corner. So, I'm talking to him and trying to get exact dirrections, and he's like, here, I'll show you. And so we start walking with him. (Right now we all felt a bit iffy about the guy but we were in a crowded street and felt safe enough). So, anyways, as we walk, he kept on making jokes about he knows all the American girls in Cairo and then turns around and points to the skies and said "thank you god for not just giving me one beautiful girl, but 3! (refering to us)....No, I kid! I have wife, and 5 kids". Then he kept on taking my arm and putting it on his as to escort me around. So, after talking to him, he's weird and makes kinda strange jokes, but we like him well enough. He tells us he works at a perfume shop and shows us it. When inside, he let's us smell a scent called Arabian Nights: "This one, makes boys go crazy...makes them so horny!! This is why I have 5 kids. My wife wears it and then 5 kids". Funny stuff. So he's letting us smell all of the perfumes, which are really just concentrated oils and tells us all the uses for them, including for massage. So, I unknowningly get pulled into a neck massage...awkward. Anna busts out her camera to take a picture of this, and he sees it, and instead of keeping with the awkward back massage, he decides to lift me up, into his arms. Wow. just wow. Well, I ended up buying so perfume off of him, which was perfect cos my necklace which holds perfume had spilled. All in all, a wonderful, hilarous experience. The perfume guy:
23rd: So, today we first went to the pyramids at Giza. Very cool. The largest one only 300 people are allowed into a day, so we didn't get to go in. But we went into the next largest one. It was so hot. We were only in there for probably like 10 minutes, but I started sweating within the first 30 seconds of getting in there...mind you we haven't really stopped sweating since arriving, but it was even worse. Crazy stuff. After that we went on a camel ride!! It was super fun. Then on to the Spinx, which was besides being in the pyramid, was my favorite part. It's just so impressive. Then we went to another perfume place (this time arranged by the tour) and what was actually another pyprus place. Then onto the museum. We weren't in the museum for nearly long enough...since we only really got an hour and a half in there, but it was crazy cool. I really want to go back. And we paid extra so that we got to go into the mummy room--creepy. My friends took picture of it all (against museum rules), so I'll get those from them and post them eventually. Okay, got to go, I've run out of minutes on this computer.
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